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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Required reading: The books that students read in 28 countries around the world

Reader's Advisory

This compilation of reading assigned to students everywhere will expand your horizons — and your bookshelves.

In the US, most students are required to read To Kill a Mockingbird
during their school years. This classic novel combines a
moving coming-of-age story with big issues like racism and criminal
injustice. Reading Mockingbird is such an integral part of the
American educational experience that we wondered: What classic books are
assigned to students elsewhere?

We posed this question to our TED-Ed Innovative Educators and members
of the TED-Ed community. People all over the globe responded, and we
curated our list to focus on local authors.
Many respondents made it
clear in their countries, as in the US, few books are absolutely
mandatory. Take a look at what students in countries from Ireland to
Iran, Ghana to Germany, are asked to read and why: